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cvid01
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January 3, 2018

Basically, my reference is the same: Are Intel chips at risk? Is this real?

Like you, I am not knowledgeable enough to understand what is happening, but it appears certain types of Intel chip memories are at risk and can be hacked. There's supposed to be a Windows fix next Tuesday.

John T Smith
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January 3, 2018

Let's just hope that the Windows patch doesn't do what I read in the article I found... slow operations as much as 50%

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January 4, 2018

Meltdown, Spectre: Understanding Intel, AMD, ARM Chip Flaws | Fortune

Everyone is working on operating system patches to work around the hardware flaw... this article says as much as a 30% slowdown

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